Rebecca Fineberg
- A cow, a pair of boots and 30 cauliflowers
- Most criminals tended to specialise, and, just as important to the police as the physical traits and mannerisms, were the modus operandi of the different offenders. Rebecca Fineberg's speciality was noted under her photo in a Manchester mugshot album:
A Jewish prostitute. Her modus operandi is to entice men into a house, get them to undress and go to bed. Whilst the man is in bed one of bullies rifles his pockets.
Ada Diamond, alias Ada Bailey, Marion Costello and Maria Bayliss, described as a prostitute and thief, has a rather ambiguous entry accompanying her photo.
Stops drunken men in the street and robs them. Known to most of Staff.
Henry Street was described as a bogus tea company fraud.
His modus operandi is to call upon people and represent that if they buy a pound of tea at the end of the month they get a bonus of 20 shillings. Known to Sergeant Chidley.
The most common offences were drunkenness, assault and larceny. It appears nothing was safe. On a typical day in Bradford in 1869 a succession of thieves, many garbed in rags, stood in the dock variously charged with stealing the following: 20 chisels, a hammer, 5lbs. of bacon, a dress and skirt, a shovel, a pair of trousers, feather bed, three pillows, three towels, two candlesticks, a pair of boots, a cow, a bottle of brandy, a plaid dress, a merino dress, 30 cauliflowers, a bag of oats and beans worth 1penny.
